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IN MEMORIAM 2022-2025
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Joan Copeland, American actress, TV's Search for Tomorrow, One Life to Live |
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Sidney Poitier, American Oscar-winning actor, Lilies of the Field, In the Heat of the Night |
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Marilyn Bergman, American songwriter, "The Windmills of Your Mind", collaborator with spouse Alan Bergman |
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Everett Lee, American conductor and violinist |
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Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer |
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Charles McGee, American WWII fighter pilot, member of the Tuskegee Airmen |
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Hardy Kruger, German actor, Sundays and Cybèle, The Flight of the Phoenix |
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Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese monk and peace activist |
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René de Obaldia, French poet, novelist, and playwright |
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Carleton Carpenter, American actor, Three Little Words, Summer Stock |
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Monica Vitti, Italian actress, L'Avventura, Modesty Blaise |
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Ashley Bryan, American children's writer and illustrator, Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum |
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George Crumb, American composer, Echoes of Time and the River, Black Angels |
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Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer, nicknamed "The Nightingale of India" |
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Carmen Herrera, Cuban-born American painter |
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Gail Halvorsen, American Air Force pilot, nicknamed the Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber" |
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Joni James, American singer, "Why Don't You Believe Me?" |
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Shirley Hughes, English children's writer and illustrator, Dogger, the Alfie series |
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Conrad Janis, American actor, TV's Mork & Mindy, and jazz trombonist |
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Thomas Hayward, American admiral, Chief of Naval Operations (1978–1982) |
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Yuriko Kikuchi, American dancer and choreographer |
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Jimmy Lydon, American actor, the Henry Aldrich film series, and television producer, 77 Sunset Strip |
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Bobbie Nelson, American pianist and singer |
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Lauro Cavazos, American government official, Secretary of Education (1988–1990) |
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Eugene Parker, American astrophysicist |
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Scoey Mitchell, American actor, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, and game show panelist |
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Richard Howard, American poet, Untitled Subjects, literary critic, and translator |
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C. W. McCall, American country singer and songwriter, "Convoy" |
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Estelle Harris, American actress, the Toy Story film series, TV's Seinfeld |
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June Brown, English actress, TV's EastEnders |
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Lygia Fagundes Telles, Brazilian writer, The Girl in the Photograph |
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Nehemiah Persoff, Palestinian-born American actor, Some Like It Hot, Yentl |
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Jack Higgins, English writer, The Eagle Has Landed, A Prayer for the Dying |
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Ann Hutchinson Guest, American dance researcher and notator |
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Michel Bouquet, French actor, Toto the Hero, Renoir |
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Liz Sheridan, American actress, TV's ALF, Seinfeld |
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James Olson, American actor, Rachel, Rachel, The Andromeda Strain |
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Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death |
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Robert Morse, American actor, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, TV's Mad Men |
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Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan president (2002–2013) |
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Ron Galella, American paparazzo |
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Norman Mineta, American politician, California representative (1975–1993), and Secretary of Transportation (2001–2006) |
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Ben Roy Mottelson, American/Danish Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist |
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Roger Angell, American sportswriter and editor, The New Yorker |
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Dervla Murphy, Irish travel writer, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle |
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George Shapiro, American talent agent and television producer, Seinfeld |
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Boris Pahor, Italian Slovenian-language poet and novelist, Nekropolis |
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George Lamming, Barbadian novelist, In the Castle of My Skin, and poet |
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Philip Baker Hall, American actor, Boogie Nights, Argo |
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Hugh McElhenny, American football player |
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Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor, A Man and a Woman, Z, Amour |
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James Rado, American actor, playwright, and lyricist, Hair |
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Margaret Keane, American painter |
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Raffaele La Capria, Italian novelist, The Mortal Wound, and screenwriter, Christ Stopped at Eboli |
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Joe Turkel, American actor, The Shining, Blade Runner |
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Hershel W. Williams, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient |
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Peter Brook, English stage and motion picture director, Marat/Sade |
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Luis Echeverría Álvarez, Mexican president (1970–1976) |
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Larry Storch, American comedian and actor, TV's F Troop |
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L. Q. Jones, American actor, The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue |
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Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian president (1975–1980) |
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Eugenio Scalfari, Italian politician and journalist, co-founder and editor of La Repubblica |
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Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born American sculptor |
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Diana Kennedy, English-born Mexican culinary writer |
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James Lovelock, English atmospheric chemist, proposed the Gaia theory |
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Bernard Cribbins, English actor, The Mouse on the Moon, The Railway Children |
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Pat Carroll, American actress, The Little Mermaid, TV's Make Room for Daddy |
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Fidel Ramos, Filipino president (1992–1998) |
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Robert Simanek, American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient |
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Vin Scully, American sportscaster |
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Clu Gulager, American actor, The Killers, TV's The Virginian |
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Frederick Buechner, American theologian and writer, The Book of Bebb, Godric |
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Virginia Patton, American actress, It's a Wonderful Life |
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian politician, President of the Soviet Union (1990–1991), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
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Don Lind, American astronaut |
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Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist |
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Tina Ramirez, Venezuelan-born American dancer and choreographer, founder of Ballet Hispanico |
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Marsha Hunt, American actress, Pride and Prejudice, and political and social activist |
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Elizabeth II, British monarch, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1952–2022) |
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Mark Miller, American actor, A Walk in the Clouds, TV's Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
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William Klein, American-born French photographer and filmmaker |
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Alain Tanner, Swiss motion picture director, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 |
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Jean-Luc Godard, French/Swiss motion picture director, Breathless, Hail Mary |
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Irene Papas, Greek actress, Z, The Trojan Women |
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Henry Silva, American actor, Ocean's Eleven, The Manchurian Candidate |
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Maarten Schmidt, Dutch-born American astronomer |
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Nick Holonyak, American engineer, created the first visible light-emitting diode (LED) |
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Robert Brown, American actor, TV’s Here Come the Brides |
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Héctor López, Panamanian-born baseball player, coach, and manager |
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Loretta Lynn, American country singer and songwriter, Coal Miner's Daughter |
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Art Laboe, American disc jockey |
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Angela Lansbury, English-born American actress, Gaslight, Broadway's Mame, TV's Murder, She Wrote |
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James McDivitt, American astronaut |
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Lodewijk van den Berg, Dutch-born American chemical engineer and astronaut |
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Charles Duncan, Jr., American government official, Secretary of Energy (1979–1981) |
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Charley Trippi, American football player |
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Pierre Soulages, French painter |
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Gerald Stern, American poet, Leaving Another Kingdom |
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Vince Dooley, American football coach and athletic director |
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George Booth, American cartoonist, regular contributor to The New Yorker |
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Doris Grumbach, American writer, Chamber Music |
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Leslie Phillips, English actor, Venus, the Harry Potter film series |
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Robert Clary, French-born American actor, TV's Hogan's Heroes |
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Fred Brooks, American computer scientist |
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Ned Rorem, American composer, Air Music, and diarist |
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Mickey Kuhn, American actor, Gone with the Wind, Red River |
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German essayist and poet |
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Louise Tobin, American singer, "There'll Be Some Changes Made" |
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Hiroshi H. Miyamura, American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient |
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Jiang Zemin, Chinese president (1993–2003) |
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Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach |
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Bob McGrath, American singer and actor, TV's Sesame Street |
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Joseph Kittinger, American Air Force colonel, first person to conduct stratospheric space diving |
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Mike Hodges, English motion picture director, Get Carter |
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Philip Pearlstein, American painter |
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Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect |
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Tony Vaccaro, American photographer |
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Barbara Walters, American journalist, The Today Show, and television interviewer |
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Benedict XVI, German pope (2005–2013) |
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Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, novelist, and screenwriter |
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Walter Cunningham, American astronaut |
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Fay Weldon, English writer, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil |
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Michael Snow, Canadian painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, Wavelength |
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Naomi Replansky, American poet, The Dangerous World |
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Bernard Kalb, American journalist and commentator |
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K. Alex Müller, Swiss Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Carole Cook, American actress, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Sixteen Candles |
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Lloyd Morrisett, American psychologist, co-founder of the Children's Television Workshop |
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Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress, Beat the Devil, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell |
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Lucile Randon
(aka Sister André), French supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death |
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Balkrishna Doshi, Indian architect |
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Lubomír Štrougal, Czech prime minister (1970–1988) |
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Burt Bacharach, American songwriter, "Alfie", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", and pianist |
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Carlos Saura, Spanish motion picture director, Carmen, Tango |
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Paul Berg, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist |
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David Oreck, American businessman, founded the Oreck vacuum cleaner company |
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Michel Deville, French motion picture director and screenwriter, Death in a French Garden |
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James Abourezk, American politician, South Dakota representative (1971–1973), and senator (1973–1979) |
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Walter Mirisch, American motion picture producer, Hawaii, In the Heat of the Night |
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Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, The Rowdyman, Away from Her |
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Betty Boothroyd, English politician, first female speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000) |
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Pat McCormick, American Olympic gold medal-winning diver |
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Bert I. Gordon, American motion picture director and screenwriter, Village of the Giants, Empire of the Ants |
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Bud Grant, American basketball player, football player, and football coach |
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John Jakes, American writer, the North and South Civil War trilogy |
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Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor, Macario |
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Jorge Edwards, Chilean writer, Persona non grata, literary critic, and diplomat |
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Virginia Zeani, Romanian-born American opera singer |
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Gordon Moore, American businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation |
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Mark Russell, American political satirist |
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Bill Butler, American cinematographer, Jaws, Grease |
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Benjamin Ferencz, Romanian-born American lawyer, prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals |
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Al Jaffee, American cartoonist, regular contributor to Mad magazine |
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Mary Quant, English fashion designer |
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Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader |
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Charles Stanley, American televangelist |
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Ken Potts, American World War II veteran, survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack on the USS Arizona |
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Harry Belafonte, American singer, "The Banana Boat Song", actor, Carmen Jones, and activist |
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Dick Groat, American basketball and baseball player |
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Newton Minow, American government official, FCC Chairman, called television a "vast wasteland" |
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Menahem Pressler, German-born Israeli/American pianist, co-founded the Beaux Arts Trio |
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Don January, American golfer |
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Kenneth Anger, American experimental filmmaker, Scorpio Rising, and writer, Hollywood Babylon |
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Ed Ames, American pop singer and actor, TV's Daniel Boone |
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Bill Lee, American jazz musician and composer |
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George Maharis, American actor, TV's Route 66 |
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Amitai Etzioni, German-born Israeli/American sociologist |
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Roger Craig, American baseball player, coach, and manager |
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Pat Cooper, American comedian and actor, Analyze This |
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Françoise Gilot, French/American painter and memoirist, Life with Picasso |
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Noreen Nash, American actress, The Southerner, Giant |
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Pat Robertson, American evangelist and television host, The 700 Club |
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Alain Touraine, French sociologist |
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John Romita, Sr., American comic book artist, co-creator of Wolverine and The Punisher |
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Daniel Ellsberg, American military analyst and researcher, leaked the Pentagon Papers |
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Max Morath, American ragtime pianist |
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Harry Markowitz, American Nobel Prize-winning economist |
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Sheldon Harnick, American lyricist, Broadway's Fiorello!, Fiddler on the Roof |
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John Goodenough, American Nobel Prize-winning solid-state physicist |
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Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress, Vengeance, King of Kings, and singer |
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Sue Johanson, Canadian sex educator and television personality, Talk Sex with Sue Johanson |
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Lowell Weicker, American politician, Connecticut representative (1969–1971), senator (1971–1989), and governor (1991–1995) |
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Evelyn Witkin, American geneticist |
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Milan Kundera, Czech-born French writer, The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
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Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher, author of On Bullshit |
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Tony Bennett, American pop singer, "Rags to Riches", "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" |
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Inga Swenson, American actress, The Miracle Worker, TV's Benson |
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Bo Goldman, American screenwriter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Melvin and Howard |
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Johnny Lujack, American football player |
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Martin Walser, German writer, A Gushing Fountain |
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Tom Jones, American lyricist and librettist, The Fantasticks |
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Howard S. Becker, American sociologist, author of Outsiders |
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James L. Buckley, American politician, New York senator (1971–1977) |
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Al Quie, American politician, Minnesota representative (1958–1979) and governor (1979–1983) |
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C. R. Rao, Indian-born American mathematician and statistician |
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Bob Barker, American game show host, Truth or Consequences, The Price Is Right |
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Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian business magnate |
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Richard Davis, American jazz bassist |
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician and Zulu tribal leader |
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Lauch Faircloth, American politician, North Carolina senator (1993–1999) |
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Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor |
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Dick Clark, American politician, Iowa senator (1973–1979) |
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Giorgio Napolitano, Italian president (2006–2015) |
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David McCallum, Scottish-born American actor, TV’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NCIS |
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M. S. Swaminathan, Indian agricultural scientist, known as the father of India's Green Revolution |
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Dianne Feinstein, American politician, California senator (1992–2023) |
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Eve Bunting, Northern Irish-born American children's writer, Smoky Night |
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Beverly Willis, American architect |
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Ted Schwinden, American politician, Montana governor (1981–1989) |
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Phyllis Coates, American actress, TV's Adventures of Superman |
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Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist, author of Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind |
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Piper Laurie, American actress, The Hustler, Carrie |
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Betsy Rawls, American golfer |
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Hans Albert, German philosopher |
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Wanda Półtawska, Polish Nazi concentration camp survivor and memoirist |
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Robert Irwin, American installation artist |
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Anne Heywood, English actress, The Fox |
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Oleg Protopopov, Russian-born Swiss Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater |
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Robert Butler, American motion picture and television director, Batman, Hill Street Blues |
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David Ferry, American poet, Bewilderment, and translator |
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Frank Borman, American astronaut |
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Don Walsh, American oceanographer |
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Joss Ackland, English actor, White Mischief, The Mighty Ducks |
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Rosalynn Carter, American First Lady (1977–1981) and mental health advocate |
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian, author of The Peasants of Languedoc |
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Charles Peters, American journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly |
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Elliot Silverstein, American motion picture director, Cat Ballou, A Man Called Horse |
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Frances Sternhagen, American actress, Starting Over, TV's Cheers |
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Julius W. Becton, Jr., American government official, Director of FEMA (1985–1989) |
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Charlie Munger, American businessman and investor, financial partner of Warren Buffet |
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Elliott Erwitt, French-born American photographer |
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Henry Kissinger, German-born American statesman, Secretary of State (1973–1977), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
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Mildred Miller, American opera singer |
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Sandra Day O'Connor, American Supreme Court justice (1981–2006) |
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Norman Lear, American motion picture and television producer, All in the Family, Good Times |
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Marisa Pavan, Italian-born actress, The Rose Tattoo |
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Norma Barzman, American screenwriter, Never Say Goodbye, Finishing School |
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Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourgian-born American historian, author of Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? |
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Robert Solow, American Nobel Prize-winning economist |
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Jacques Delors, French statesman, European Commission president (1985–1995) |
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Shecky Greene, American comedian and actor, Splash |
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Glynis Johns, South African-born Welsh actress, Mary Poppins, Broadway's A Little Night Music |
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Bill Hayes, American pop singer, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett", and actor, TV's Days of Our Lives |
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Joyce Randolph, American actress, TV's The Honeymooners |
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Jack Burke, Jr., American golfer |
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Norman Jewison, Canadian motion picture producer and director, In the Heat of the Night, Moonstruck |
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Arno Penzias, German-born American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist |
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Charles Osgood, American journalist and television host, CBS News Sunday Morning |
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Sandra Milo, Italian actress, 8½, Juliet of the Spirits |
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Jean Carnahan, American politician, Missouri senator (2001–2002) |
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Chita Rivera, American actress, singer, and dancer, Broadway's West Side Story, Chicago |
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Don Murray, American actor, Bus Stop, A Hatful of Rain, TV's Knots Landing |
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Jean Malaurie, French cultural anthropologist and polar explorer |
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Dries van Agt, Dutch prime minister (1977–1982) |
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Robert M. Young, American documentarian and motion picture director, Dominick and Eugene |
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Robert Badinter, French lawyer, government official, and anti-death penalty activist |
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Allen J. Bard, American chemist, known as the father of modern electrochemistry |
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Charles D. Ferris, American government official, FCC Chairman (1977–1981) |
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Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist, known as the father of peace studies |
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Roger Guillemin, French-born American Nobel Prize-winning physiologist |
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Micheline Presle, French actress, Devil in the Flesh, Under My Skin |
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Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzanian president (1985–1995) |
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Iris Apfel, American interior designer and fashion icon |
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Eleanor Collins, Canadian jazz singer |
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Herbert Kroemer, German Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Malachy McCourt, American actor, TV's Ryan's Hope, Oz, and memoirist, A Monk Swimming |
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Pete Rodriguez, American boogaloo musician and bandleader |
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Byron Janis, American classical pianist |
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Thomas Stafford, American astronaut |
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Laurent de Brunhoff, French/American children's writer and illustrator, the Babar the Elephant series |
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Daniel Kahneman, Israeli/American Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist |
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Barbara Rush, American actress, It Came from Outer Space, The Young Philadelphians |
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Lou Conter, American World War II veteran, last survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack on the USS Arizona |
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John Barth, American writer, The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy |
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Maryse Condé, Guadeloupian novelist, Ségou, and playwright |
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Juan Vicente Pérez, Venezuelan supercentenarian, world's oldest validated man at time of death |
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Lynne Reid Banks, English writer, The L-Shaped Room, The Indian in the Cupboard |
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Peter Higgs, English Nobel Prize-winning physicist, proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle |
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Ralph Puckett, American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient |
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Jaime de Armiñán, Spanish motion picture director and screenwriter, Mi querida señorita, El Nido |
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Robert MacNeil, Canadian-born American journalist, co-anchor of The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour |
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Faith Ringgold, American painter, sculptor, and quilter |
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Whitey Herzog, American baseball player, coach, and manager |
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Josip Manolić, Croatian prime minister (1990–1991) |
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Carl Erskine, American baseball player |
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Jerome Rothenberg, American poet and translator |
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Terry Carter, American actor, TV’s McCloud, Battlestar Galactica, and documentarian |
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Robert H. Dennard, American electrical engineer, inventor of the one-transistor dynamic memory cell |
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Helen Vendler, American literary critic |
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Bill Holman, American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger |
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Pete McCloskey, American politician, California representative (1967–1983) |
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Roger Corman, American motion picture producer and director, The Little Shop of Horrors |
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Nonny Hogrogian, American children's writer and illustrator, One Fine Day |
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Mary Wells Lawrence, American advertising executive |
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Mark Damon, American actor, House of Usher, and motion picture producer, 9½ Weeks |
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Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning short story writer, Runaway |
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Dabney Coleman, American actor, 9 to 5, Tootsie |
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Bud Anderson, American World War II triple ace fighter pilot |
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Darryl Hickman, American actor, The Grapes of Wrath, and television executive |
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Albert Ruddy, Canadian-born American motion picture producer, The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby |
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Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter, "Chim Chim Cher-ee", collaborator with brother Robert B. Sherman |
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Philippe Leroy, French actor, The Night Porter, La Femme Nikita |
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Janis Paige, American actress, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Broadway's The Pajama Game |
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Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian |
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William Russell, English actor, TV's Doctor Who |
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Parnelli Jones, American race car driver |
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Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect |
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William Anders, American astronaut |
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James Lawson, American activist, minister, and educator |
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Anouk Aimée, French actress, A Man and a Woman |
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Willie Mays, American baseball player and coach |
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Frederick Crews, American literary critic, author of The Pooh Perplex |
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Bill Cobbs, American actor, The Hudsucker Proxy, Night at the Museum |
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Audrey Flack, American painter and sculptor |
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Yvonne Furneaux, French actress, La Dolce Vita, Repulsion |
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Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish Nobel Prize-winning biochemist |
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Vic Seixas, American tennis player |
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Joe Engle, American astronaut |
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Tonke Dragt, Dutch children's writer and illustrator, The Letter for the King |
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Ruth Westheimer, German-born American psychosexual therapist and talk show host |
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James B. Sikking, American actor, TV's Hill Street Blues, Doogie Howser, M.D. |
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Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor, Elf, TV's The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart |
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Kenneth Grange, English industrial designer |
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John Mayall, English blues-rock singer and musician, frontman of the Bluesbreakers |
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Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, The Country Girls |
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Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Mitzi McCall, American actress and comedian |
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Gena Rowlands, American actress, A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria |
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Peter Marshall, American singer, actor, and game show host, The Hollywood Squares |
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Silvio Santos, Brazilian media tycoon and television host |
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Ruth Johnson Colvin, American literacy activist |
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Maria Branyas, American-born Spanish supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death |
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Selim Hoss, Lebanese prime minister (1976–1980, 1987–1990, 1998–2000) and president (1988–1989) |
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Alexander Goehr, German-born English composer |
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Lucine Amara, American opera singer |
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James Earl Jones, American actor, The Great White Hope, Star Wars |
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Caterina Valente, French-born Italian singer, guitarist, and actress |
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Joe Schmidt, American football player and coach |
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Otis Davis, American Olympic gold medal-winning runner |
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Kathryn Crosby (aka Kathryn Grant), American singer and actress, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad |
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Daniel J. Evans, American politician, Washington governor (1965–1977) and senator (1983–1989) |
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Benny Golson, American jazz saxophonist and composer |
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Fredric Jameson, American Marxist theorist and cultural critic |
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Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegalese educator, UNESCO Director-General (1974–1987) |
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Robert Coover, American writer, The Public Burning |
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Cissy Houston, American soul and gospel singer |
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Ethel Kennedy, American human rights activist and political figure, widow of Senator Robert Kennedy |
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Alvin Rakoff, Canadian motion picture and television director, A Voyage Round My Father |
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Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, conducted 1971's Stanford Prison Experiment |
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Mitzi Gaynor, American singer, dancer, and actress, South Pacific |
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Andrew Schally, Polish-born American Nobel Prize-winning endocrinologist |
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Barbara Dane, American folk, blues, and jazz singer and social activist |
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Mimi Hines, Canadian-born comedian, actress, and singer |
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Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian priest, pioneer of Latin American liberation theology |
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Leon Cooper, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Jonathan Haze, American actor, 1960's The Little Shop of Horrors |
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Dub Jones, American football player and coach |
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Quincy Jones, American music producer, musician, and composer |
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Bernard Marcus, American businessman, co-founded Home Depot |
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Madeleine Riffaud, French resistance fighter, journalist, and poet |
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Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-born Swiss artist |
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June Spencer, English actress, The Archers radio series |
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Lou Donaldson, American jazz saxophonist |
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Ella Jenkins, American singer and songwriter, nicknamed "The First Lady of Children's Music" |
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Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player |
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Frank Auerbach, German-born English painter |
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Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer |
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Timothy West, English actor, Nicholas and Alexandra, Iris |
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Olav Thon, Norwegian real estate developer and philanthropist |
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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archeologist |
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Arthur Frommer, American travel writer and publisher |
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Fred Harris, American politician, Oklahoma senator (1964–1973) |
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, English/American writer, the Emma Harte series |
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Helen Gallagher, American actress, TV's Ryan's Hope |
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Earl Holliman, American actor, The Rainmaker, TV's Police Woman |
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Silvia Pinal, Mexican actress, Viridiana |
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Lou Carnesecca, American basketball coach |
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Jacques Roubaud, French poet and novelist, The Great Fire of London |
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Rocky Colavito, American baseball player and coach |
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Martial Solal, Algerian-born French jazz pianist and composer |
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William Labov, American sociolinguist |
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Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Spanish scholar and politician, Director-General of UNESCO (1987–1999) |
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Shyam Benegal, Indian motion picture director and screenwriter, Ankur |
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M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian novelist, screenwriter, and motion picture director, Nirmalyam |
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Manmohan Singh, Indian prime minister (2004–2014) |
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Charlie Maxwell, American baseball player |
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Charles Dolan, American media mogul, founded Cablevision and HBO |
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Martin Karplus, Austrian-born American Nobel Prize-winning chemist |
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Barre Phillips, American jazz bassist |
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Jimmy Carter, American president (1977–1981), humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
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Tomiko Itooka, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death |
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Ágnes Keleti, Hungarian/Israeli Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast |
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, French nationalist, founded and led the National Front political party (1972–2011) |
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James McEachin, American actor, Play Misty for Me, TV's Tenafly |
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Claude Jarman Jr., American actor, The Yearling, Rio Grande |
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Tommy Brown, American baseball player |
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Joan Plowright, English actress, The Entertainer, Avalon, Enchanted April |
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Bob Uecker, American baseball player, sportscaster, and actor, TV's Mr. Belvedere |
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Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter, Carnal Knowledge |
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Iris Cummings Critchell, American aviator and swimmer, last surviving participant of the 1936 Summer Olympics |
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William Leuchtenburg, American historian, author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal |
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Dick Button, American Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater and skating analyst |
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Sam Nujoma, Namibian president (1990–2005) |
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Mara Corday, American actress, Tarantula! |
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Tom Robbins, American writer, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist |
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Tommy Hunt, American soul singer, member of the Flamingos doo-wop group |
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Geneviève Page, French actress, Belle de jour, Mayerling |
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Gene Hackman, American Oscar-winning actor, Bonnie and Clyde, The French Connection |
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Clint Hill, American Secret Service agent, shielded the Kennedys after the president was shot |
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Alvin Poussaint, American psychiatrist and television consultant |
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Jennifer Johnston, Irish writer, The Old Jest |
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Art Schallock, American baseball player |
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Athol Fugard, South African playwright, "Master Harold"...and the Boys, and director |
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Robert McGinnis, American painter and illustrator |
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Clive Revill, New Zealand actor, Avanti!, The Empire Strikes Back |
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Ron Nessen, American journalist and government official, White House Press Secretary (1974–1977) |
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Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer, Offertorium |
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Alan Simpson, American politician, Wyoming senator (1979–1997) |
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J. Bennett Johnston, American politician, Louisiana senator (1972–1997) |
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Richard Chamberlain, American actor, Shōgun, The Thorn Birds, TV's Dr. Kildare |
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Ted Kotcheff, Canadian motion picture director, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Weekend at Bernie's |
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Jean Marsh, English actress, Willow, TV's Upstairs, Downstairs |
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Wink Martindale, American game show host, Gambit, Tic-Tac-Dough |
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Will Hutchins, American actor, Spinout, TV's Sugarfoot |
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Zurab Tsereteli, Russian sculptor and painter |
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Priscilla Pointer, American actress, Carrie, TV's Dallas |
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Inah Canabarro Lucas, Brazilian supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death |
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George Ryan, American politician, Illinois governor (1999–2003) |
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Robert Benton, American motion picture director and screenwriter, Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart |
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Aidan Chambers, English writer for young adults, Postcards from No Man's Land |
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Richard Garwin, American physicist, co-designed the first successful hydrogen bomb |
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Taina Elg, Finnish-born American actress, Les Girls, The 39 Steps, and dancer |
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Charles Strouse, American composer, Broadway's Bye Bye Birdie, Annie |
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Marianne Bernadotte, Swedish actress, royal, and philanthropist |
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Peter Lax, Hungarian-born American mathematician |
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Yuri Grigorovich, Russian dancer and choreographer |
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Kathleen Hughes, American actress, It Came from Outer Space |
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Billy Williams, English cinematographer, On Golden Pond, Gandhi |
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Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-born philosopher, author of After Virtue |
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Susan Brownmiller, American journalist and feminist, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape |
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Marcel Ophuls, French/American documentarian, The Sorry and the Pity |
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Charles Rangel, American politician, New York representative (1971–2017) |
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George E. Smith, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Pierre Nora, French historian |
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David H. Murdock, American businessman, chairman and owner of Dole Food Company |
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Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan president (1990–1997) |
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Alfred Brendel, Czech-born Austrian pianist |
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Lynn Hamilton, American actress, TV's Sanford and Son, The Waltons |
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Marita Camacho Quirós, Costa Rican first lady (1962–1966) |
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Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Francis Graham-Smith, English astronomer |
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Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor |
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Lea Massari, Italian actress, L'Avventura, Murmur of the Heart |
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Bill Moyers, American journalist and television commentator |
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Lalo Schifrin, Argentinian-born American film and television score composer, Mission: Impossible |
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Alex Delvecchio, Canadian hockey player, coach, and manager |
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Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist |
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Frank Layden, American basketball coach and executive |
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Eileen Fulton, American actress, TV’s As the World Turns |
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Fauja Singh, Indian-born English marathon runner |
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Bill Clay, American politician, Missouri representative (1969–2001) |
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Alan Bergman, American songwriter, "The Way We Were", collaborator with spouse Marilyn Bergman |
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Cleo Laine, English singer and actress, nicknamed "The Queen of Jazz" |
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Tom Lehrer, American musical satirist, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" |
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Cécile Dionne, Canadian media personality, one of the Dionne quintuplets |
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Jane Morgan, American pop singer, "Fascination", "The Day the Rains Came" |
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Ion Iliescu, Romanian president (1989–1996, 2000–2004) |
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Jim Lovell, American astronaut, commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission |
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William H. Webster, American government official, director of the FBI (1978–1987) and CIA (1987–1991) |
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Sheila Jordan, American jazz singer |
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Gerry Spence, American trial lawyer, author of How to Argue and Win Every Time |
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Joe Caroff, American graphic designer, creator of the James Bond gun logo |
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Eugen Gomringer, Bolivian-born Swiss concrete poet |
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Jerry Adler, American actor, TV's Mad About You, The Sopranos |
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Rainer Weiss, German-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Rodion Shchedrin, Russian composer and pianist |
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Patrick Hemingway, American literary editor, Ernest Hemingway's True at First Light |
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Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer |
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Robert Jay Lifton, American psychiatrist, author of Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism |
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Christoph von Dohnányi, German conductor |
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Patricia Crowley, American actress, TV’s Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
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Marilyn Knowlden, American actress, Imitation of Life, Les Misérables |
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John Searle, American philosopher, author of The Rediscovery of the Mind |
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Dickie Bird, English cricketer and umpire |
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Sara Jane Moore, American political extremist, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford |
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Russell M. Nelson, American religious leader, Church of Latter-day Saints president (2018–2025) |
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Jane Goodall, English primatologist and conservationist |
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Patricia Routledge, English actress, TV's Keeping Up Appearances |
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Ken Jacobs, American experimental filmmaker, Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son |
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John Gurdon, English Nobel Prize-winning developmental biologist |
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Sister Jean, American nun, chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team |
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Jim Bolger, New Zealand prime minister (1990–1997) |
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Tomiichi Murayama, Japanese prime minister (1994–1996) |
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Yang Chen-Ning, Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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June Lockhart, American actress, TV's Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction |
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J. William Middendorf, American ambassador and government official, Secretary of the Navy (1974–1977) |
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Sirikit, Thai queen consort (1950–2016) |
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Hamilton O. Smith, American Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist |
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Prunella Scales, English actress, TV's Fawlty Towers |
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Alison Knowles, American Fluxus artist |
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Maria Riva, German-born American actress, Scrooged, and memoirist, Marlene Dietrich |
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Charles Coste, French Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist |
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Kim Yong-nam, North Korean government official, ceremonial head of state (1998–2019) |
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Paul Ignatius, American government official, Secretary of the Navy (1967–1969) |
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James Watson, American Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and biophysicist |
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Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor, Kagemusha, Ran |
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Paul Ekman, American psychologist, pioneer in the study of nonverbal intelligence |
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Llyn Foulkes, American painter and mixed-media artist |
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Ornella Vanoni, Italian singer and actress |
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Theodor Pištěk, Czech painter and costume designer, Amadeus |
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Frank Gehry, Canadian/American architect |
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Jonah Kinigstein, American painter |
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Rod Paige, American government official, Secretary of Education (2001–2005) |
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Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor, comedian, and impressionist |
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May Britt, Swedish actress, The Young Lions, The Blue Angel |
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Arthur Cohn, Swiss motion picture producer, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis |
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Norman Podhoretz, American neoconservative writer and commentator |
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Peter Arnett, New Zealand/American journalist and anchorman |
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Hans van Manen, Dutch choreographer |
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Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, Ecuadorian president (1988–1992) |
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Arnulf Rainer, Austrian painter |
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Ram V. Sutar, Indian sculptor |
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Annette Dionne, Canadian media personality, last surviving Dionne quintuplet |
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Brigitte Bardot, French actress, And God Created Woman, and animal rights activist |
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Carmen de Lavallade, American dancer, choreographer, and actress |
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Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American politician, Colorado representative (1987–1993) and senator (1993–2005) |
